At 07:19 AM 12/18/97 -0700, you wrote:
>PIC List,
>        I only casually read the recent thread on CRT memory, so if this
>has already been mentioned I apologize, but it looks like the perfect
>forum for this list's experts in the logistics of minutiae.
>
>Dr Dobbs Journal Jan. 1998 (pp. 18)
>
>"
>
> Three Programmers and a Baby
>
>        To celebrate the 50th birthday of its "Baby", the prototype to the
>Manchester Mark I, the University of Manchester is sponsoring a
>programming contest. Tom Kilburn, who built Baby and wrote its first
>program is chairing the panel of judges. The winning entry will be run on
>a replica of Baby.
>        Baby used a CRT memory that stored 32 32-bit words, had 7
>instructions, and could execute 700 instructions per second. Its first
>program, determining the largest factor of 2^18 (sic) was 17 instructions
>long and took 52 minutes to run.

Isn't the largest factor of 2^18, just 2^17 ??!! I guess that is the reason
for the "(sic)"! I also guess that they were lazy and didn't want to have
to figure out any more difficult example of a number to factor !


>        The deadline for entering is March 31, 1998. More information is
>available at http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/prog98.
>
>        -- Eugene Eric Kim
>
>"
>
>        If programming PICs isn't practice for this what else is.
>
>        Matt
>
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>/* Matt Calder, Dept. of Statistics, CSU */
>/* http://www.stat.colostate.edu/~calder */
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